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Footsie: Prequel

Tracy had been working the grave yard shift at the old gas station since she was thirteen years old.
19 now, and getting ready for college she decided to work one last summer before she would leave.
Evan came one late night, they talked for hours, when she asked why he was up so late he just said “insomnia”. He continued to come and talk to her, and she didn’t mind.
Eventually they fell in love. It got to the point he actually got a job working with her there those last couple months.

It was about a week before she would leave for college that things got weird. Two of his friends would come in and just listen to them talk. Watching her. Never taking their eyes off her.
And then it happened. They were in the car and she watched as Evan’s two friends beat up some boy, which scared Tracy. Especially when she realized it was her little brother.
They accused her of knowing “secret information”. When she denied it they knocked her out. And she woke up with a nail pressed against her neck.

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